The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit that has yet existed," wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille. An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration-a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and Freud-of the psychology of sex, it is...(展开全部)

From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short memoir, novelistic in style and ambition, about the pathos, comedy, and devastation of early love. Stanford professor and longtime contributor to the London Review of Books , the Atlantic , the New Republic , ...(展开全部)

This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinent sections of The Fable’s two volumes, a selection from Mandeville’s An Enquiry into the Origin of Honor and selections from two of Mandeville’s most important sources: Pierre Bayle and the Jansenist Pierre Nicole. Hundert’s Introduction places Mandeville in a number of eighteenth-century debates—particularly that of the na...(展开全部)

“The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start. . . . He’s among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding. . . . He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the...(展开全部)

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHRONOLOGY OF OSCAR WILDE'S LIFE AND WORK HISTORICAL CONTEST OF THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY DE PROFUNDIS THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL NOTES INTERPRETIVE NOTES CRITICAL EXCERPTS QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION SUGGESTIONS FOR THE INTERESTED READER

Contents Introduction by Richard Ellmann The Picture of Dorian Gray Lady Windemere's Fan Salome An Ideal Husband The Importance of being Earnest The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Contents Introduction by Richard Ellmann The Picture of Dorian Gray Lady Windemere's Fan Salome An Ideal Husband The Importance of being Earnest The Ballad of Reading Gaol

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHRONOLOGY OF OSCAR WILDE'S LIFE AND WORK HISTORICAL CONTEST OF THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY DE PROFUNDIS THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL NOTES INTERPRETIVE NOTES CRITICAL EXCERPTS QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION SUGGESTIONS FOR THE INTERESTED READER

This new edition of "Leaves of Grass" inlcudes "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days". Throughout the text, the explanatory annotations have been revised and expanded. "Whitman on His Art" presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles...(展开全部)

This new edition of "Leaves of Grass" inlcudes "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days". Throughout the text, the explanatory annotations have been revised and expanded. "Whitman on His Art" presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles...(展开全部)